u/roycorderov

I'd like to know how long it might take to get my EIN number if I apply by fax.

I'm an entrepreneur outside the U.S. and I've formed my LLC. Now I want to get my EIN number, and I've watched several YouTube videos—some say that if you apply by fax, it could take between 4 and 6 days, but those videos are from 2 or 3 years ago. However, I’ve seen a video from this year (2026) that says it can take up to 2 months and explains the trick of calling by phone after 5 days to request the EIN directly.

I've been trying to figure out how to call the IRS directly, but I can't find a way to do it. I'm thinking of filing the SS-4 by fax, but I'm worried about the time it will take—I don't want to wait a month or two—so I'm considering ordering it through Northwest, but it costs $200.

That's why I'd like to know how long it took you to receive your EIN by fax, approximately?

I'd like to know how long it might take to get my EIN number if I apply by fax.

I'm an entrepreneur outside the U.S. and I've formed my LLC. Now I want to get my EIN number, and I've watched several YouTube videos—some say that if you apply by fax, it could take between 4 and 6 days, but those videos are from 2 or 3 years ago. However, I’ve seen a video from this year (2026) that says it can take up to 2 months and explains the trick of calling by phone after 5 days to request the EIN directly.

I've been trying to figure out how to call the IRS directly, but I can't find a way to do it. I'm thinking of filing the SS-4 by fax, but I'm worried about the time it will take—I don't want to wait a month or two—so I'm considering ordering it through Northwest, but it costs $200.

That's why I'd like to know how long it took you to receive your EIN by fax, approximately?

I'd like to know how long it might take to get my EIN number if I apply by fax.

I'm an entrepreneur outside the U.S. and I've formed my LLC. Now I want to get my EIN number, and I've watched several YouTube videos—some say that if you apply by fax, it could take between 4 and 6 days, but those videos are from 2 or 3 years ago. However, I’ve seen a video from this year (2026) that says it can take up to 2 months and explains the trick of calling by phone after 5 days to request the EIN directly.

I've been trying to figure out how to call the IRS directly, but I can't find a way to do it. I'm thinking of filing the SS-4 by fax, but I'm worried about the time it will take—I don't want to wait a month or two—so I'm considering ordering it through Northwest, but it costs $200.

That's why I'd like to know how long it took you to receive your EIN by fax, approximately?

I've been genuinely trying to make Vivaldi my main browser for weeks. I really have. Its built-in mail client, calendar, and RSS reader are outstanding features that no other browser offers out of the box, and I'm truly impressed by them.

However, there's something driving me absolutely crazy, and it's a core, basic functionality: how extension icons behave in the address bar when you resize the window.

In Chrome, Opera, Brave (my current daily driver), Firefox, and even Edge — all browsers I was hoping to replace with Vivaldi — this has worked correctly for years. When you drag the window and make it smaller, the extension buttons rearrange themselves. The ones that don't fit tuck neatly behind the puzzle button. No loss of access, no friction. You can still access your 15+ favorite extensions with a single click. It's logical, simple, and it just works.

In Vivaldi, this is a complete disaster.

The default behavior isn't to hide overflowing buttons — it's to overflow them. Buttons physically spill out of the window and become completely unreachable, with no way to access them.

But that's not even the worst part. The worst part is that Vivaldi, in an attempt to prevent overflow, ends up hiding its own native buttons.

https://preview.redd.it/15ceonkd4dzg1.png?width=1913&format=png&auto=webp&s=2f30d88e2d5cfd8c8ff711e626ee623107bb6cce

https://preview.redd.it/lrhd6cai4dzg1.png?width=797&format=png&auto=webp&s=316516fe61c749828d4a56a00fe48b109bd0a32c

When the window is small, Vivaldi doesn't hide your least-used extensions. Instead, it removes the profile button from the interface, the general settings button, and most critically... the actual puzzle button itself (the extension management button). You're left with no way to access extensions that got hidden, no way to change profiles, and your only option is to enlarge the window just to make the buttons reappear.

A concrete example to illustrate the problem:

I have 10 extensions always visible. I shrink the window by 30%.

On Brave or Chrome, I now see 6 buttons and a puzzle button that gives me access to the other 4. I remain in control.

On Vivaldi, I still see 8 buttons physically on screen, but because they don't fit, 2 of them are clipped off the edge of the window and I can't even click them. Meanwhile, the puzzle button, my profile button, and the settings button have completely disappeared. I have zero access to anything.

What I've tried that didn't work:

• Toggling various flags in vivaldi://experiments
• Enabling CSS modifications and applying community scripts (including tamawase's)
• Using the toolbar editor to manually arrange buttons
• Testing every combination of the "hidden extension visibility" options

Nothing has gotten Vivaldi to behave like other browsers in this regard.

How is it possible that a browser this modern, this customizable, and this powerful in other areas (mail, panels, quick commands) falls short on such a basic feature as extension icon management?

Please — has anyone found a working configuration, a third-party extension that patches this, or a line of CSS I haven't tried? I'm genuinely close to giving up on Vivaldi over this single issue, and it's frustrating because the mail client alone is otherwise a work of art.

My setup:
Version: 7.9.3970.60 (Official build) (64-bit)
Chromium version: 146.0.7680.218
Channel: Extended stable build
Platform / OS: Windows 11 Version 25H2 (Build 26200.8246)

edited: adding screenshots

I've been genuinely trying to make Vivaldi my main browser for weeks. I really have. Its built-in mail client, calendar, and RSS reader are outstanding features that no other browser offers out of the box, and I'm truly impressed by them.

However, there's something driving me absolutely crazy, and it's a core, basic functionality: how extension icons behave in the address bar when you resize the window.

In Chrome, Opera, Brave (my current daily driver), Firefox, and even Edge — all browsers I was hoping to replace with Vivaldi — this has worked correctly for years. When you drag the window and make it smaller, the extension buttons rearrange themselves. The ones that don't fit tuck neatly behind the puzzle button. No loss of access, no friction. You can still access your 15+ favorite extensions with a single click. It's logical, simple, and it just works.

https://preview.redd.it/83i1zwa55dzg1.png?width=1913&format=png&auto=webp&s=9ced27bf96b8ae120baf90a0eb1c0e563c0757fc

In Vivaldi, this is a complete disaster.

The default behavior isn't to hide overflowing buttons — it's to overflow them. Buttons physically spill out of the window and become completely unreachable, with no way to access them.

But that's not even the worst part. The worst part is that Vivaldi, in an attempt to prevent overflow, ends up hiding its own native buttons.

When the window is small, Vivaldi doesn't hide your least-used extensions. Instead, it removes the profile button from the interface, the general settings button, and most critically... the actual puzzle button itself (the extension management button). You're left with no way to access extensions that got hidden, no way to change profiles, and your only option is to enlarge the window just to make the buttons reappear.

https://preview.redd.it/u9g1dkd75dzg1.png?width=797&format=png&auto=webp&s=4333baecf7e4785d2ade8cf93550cd2a55858e68

A concrete example to illustrate the problem:

I have 10 extensions always visible. I shrink the window by 30%.

On Brave or Chrome, I now see 6 buttons and a puzzle button that gives me access to the other 4. I remain in control.

On Vivaldi, I still see 8 buttons physically on screen, but because they don't fit, 2 of them are clipped off the edge of the window and I can't even click them. Meanwhile, the puzzle button, my profile button, and the settings button have completely disappeared. I have zero access to anything.

What I've tried that didn't work:

• Toggling various flags in vivaldi://experiments
• Enabling CSS modifications and applying community scripts (including tamawase's)
• Using the toolbar editor to manually arrange buttons
• Testing every combination of the "hidden extension visibility" options

Nothing has gotten Vivaldi to behave like other browsers in this regard.

How is it possible that a browser this modern, this customizable, and this powerful in other areas (mail, panels, quick commands) falls short on such a basic feature as extension icon management?

Please — has anyone found a working configuration, a third-party extension that patches this, or a line of CSS I haven't tried? I'm genuinely close to giving up on Vivaldi over this single issue, and it's frustrating because the mail client alone is otherwise a work of art.

My setup:
Version: 7.9.3970.60 (Official build) (64-bit)
Chromium version: 146.0.7680.218
Channel: Extended stable build
Platform / OS: Windows 11 Version 25H2 (Build 26200.8246)

Edited Added screenshots